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Human computation, and the wisdom of crowds

Human computation, and the wisdom of crowds. Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington July 2013. Luis von Ahn. Hours per year, world-wide, spent playing computer solitaire: 9 billion.

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Human computation, and the wisdom of crowds

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  1. Human computation, andthe wisdom of crowds Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington July 2013

  2. Luis von Ahn

  3. Hours per year, world-wide, spent playing computer solitaire: 9 billion Hours spent building the Panama Canal: 20 million (less than a day of solitaire)

  4. Years 1851-1980 were fully digitized, start to finish, in 2009!

  5. Games for scientific discovery David Baker

  6. David Baker and Zoran Popovic http://fold.it/portal/

  7. Crowdsourced national security [Peter Lee, DARPA]

  8. [Peter Lee, DARPA]

  9. 29 Oct – Announced 5 Dec – Balloons Up 40th Anniversary of the Internet $40k Prize • 4367 registrants • 39 countries • 922 submissions • correct locations [Peter Lee, DARPA]

  10. Games for learning Zoran Popovic Zoran Popovic

  11. Games for scientific discovery Games for learning http://games.cs.washington.edu/

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